Jun 06, 2007 11:04
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
--Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest American hero of our times, IMHO
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